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Literature is indispensable to the world.

James Baldwin

You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWIN

Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWIN

Alive Connect People Teaching
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Force Reality Represent
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN

Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN

Light People Treat Trust
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWIN

Mirror People Person Truth
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN

Indispensable Literature One Liner World
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
JAMES BALDWIN

Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWIN

Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Imitate Listen Parents

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